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Historic footage Related to the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis

Topics: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Rev. James Lawson, Ramsey Clark, Clifford Alexander, Roger Wilkins, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, Assassination, James Earl Ray, Phil Donahue, John Auble, Michael Brown, Today Show, Historic, Footage, Video, Television, TV, Movie, Archive, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Memphis, Tennessee, sanitation workers, strike, murder, investigation, Jerry Ray, David Lifton, Jeff Cohen, New Times, Conrad Pete Bates, Oliver Patterson, Susan Wadsworth, Raul, Mark Lane, Hal Sawyer, Dick Gregory, Auble at Large, John Kauffman, film, conspiracy, Don Harris, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Grace Walden, Charlie Stevens, Tom Brokaw, Coby Smith
Language: English
Item Size: 4.5G

This is a copy of a digital recording of two reels of footage related to Martin Luther King Jr.'s visits to Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 in support of striking sanitation workers and his assassination, accompanied by film footage of interviews and news coverage related to investigations of King's assassination.

The original source of the videos is unclear. The various reels and tapes were collected by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, then later transferred to the U.S. National Archives, where they were digitized and assigned the following catalog numbers:

Footage from 1968: 233.MLK.310186 (reels 1 & 2)
Donahue show: 233.MLK.150154
James Earl Ray interview: 233.MLK.150170
Reporter John Auble report: 233.MLK.240183, reel 1
Reporter Michael Brown report: 233.MLK.240183, reel 2
Today Show: 233.MLK.270149

Addeddate: 2018-06-04 02:02:52
Color: color
Identifier: HSCA-MLK-Memphis-1968
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Sound: sound